Michal Ždanský One piece of information that Apple completely left out during the Watch presentation was the amount of internal memory that should be user-accessible, for example for recording music or photos. Server 9to5Mac managed to officially confirm that the watch has 8GB of storage, as originally speculated. Unfortunately, users will only be able to use part of it.
The memory usage limit will depend on the type of media. 2 GB is reserved for music in the Apple Watch, which must be transferred to the watch via the iPhone. The songs must therefore be stored on the phone and only marked which should be uploaded to the watch. For photos, the limit is even smaller, just 75 MB. Although the photos are optimized, you can still upload only about 100 photos to the watch. The rest of the memory is then reserved for the system and cashing, partly also for third-party applications, or the necessary binary files.
It will be interesting to see how storage will be handled when Apple allows third-party apps to run independently on the watch, as they will also have to take up some of the available 8 GB. Currently, most of the application content is stored directly on the iPhone and the watch only takes it into the cache. There is no way to increase user memory when buying a watch, and what's more, all editions will have the same eight gigabytes. Even paying a premium of several thousand dollars for a gold watch won't add more space for music, so it's too early to replace the iPod.
Those two gigabytes for music will be useful at least when you want to go for a run with the Watch on your hand, for example, but at the same time you don't want to carry an iPhone with you, which is logical when doing sports. Apple Watch can play stored music even without an iPhone present.
2GB for music is quite enough. 75MB is just enough for photos. I'm not crazy about looking at photos on my watch. And let the applications eat the rest. I have a max of 8 apps or so on my Pebble. So it's not much worse. :D
If only they had GPS in them and I could go jogging happily :)
well that would be great but I'm worried…..
Me too and a big disappointment for me, on the other hand I read this:
http://imagazin.cz/google-nauci-android-hodinky-spolupracovat-s-iphonem/
So I'll wait and see with the fitbit for a little while longer.
I heard something about that too. It would be a blow to the Watch. Nothing would prevent IOS users on the iPhone from using other watch brands. The question is whether Apple could take countermeasures and make this connection impossible.
This has happened a few times in the past, either because the iPod didn't work with non-Apple headphones, etc. Apple could do it, but personally I think it stinks of another court case that it can't win even if it wanted to…
are they waterproof at all?